US secret court publishes rationale for why spying on everybody is OKThe newly unveiled rationale has its roots in the old "you disclose your phone number to the phone company when you make a call" shtick. Swap "phone number" for "massive piles of metadata" and you get the reason everything done under the telecom metadata sharing program under Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act is legally legitimate.
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US secret court publishes rationale for why spying on everybody is OK
